Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.